Int J Environ Res Public Health
April 2021
Rising global temperatures and seawater temperatures have led to an increase in extreme weather patterns leading to droughts and floods. These natural phenomena, in turn, affect the supply of drinking water in some communities, which causes an increase in the prevalence of diseases related to the supply of drinking water. The objective of this work is to demonstrate the effects of global warming on human health in the population of Monterrey, Mexico after Hurricane Alex.
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November 2018
Objective: To estimate and analyze the regional patterns of life expectancy at birth in Mexico for the period 1990-2010 using multiple regression.
Materials And Methods: Multiple regression analysis is used to obtain life expectancy rates at state level. This method considers variables such as crude death rate and population over 65 years of age to know the level of convergence between states.
Introduction: Depression among older people can be associated with limitations in physical mobility.
Method: The ENSANUT 2012 data set was used. A secondary data analysis was conducted on a total sample of 6,525 Mexicans 60 years and older.
This study shows that in Mexico, a country at an advanced stage in the epidemiologic transition, with the national burden of disease dominated by noncommunicable diseases, elevated blood pressure is a major clinical and public health problem. 31.7% of the Mexican individuals aged 50 and over had systolic hypertension, and 47.
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